The lawsuit brought by the Author’s Guild alleging copyright infringement by the University of Michigan and additional HathiTrust institutions came to a formal conclusion on January 6. Earlier federal district and appeals court rulings upheld the library’s digitization and limited use of the copyrighted works in its collection.

The Library now provides access to RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicales/International Inventory of Musical Sources) via the open-access version of this database provided by RISM rather than the EBSCO version to which we previously subscribed.